About Mae

Mae Lu is a Canada-born, So-Cal-raised Asian American 30 Something, living a dream with her hubby & dog in the magical kingdom of Hawaii.

This red-lipstick aficionado designs websites for a living and runs a fledgling lifestyle YouTube Channel in her spare time. On the weekends, if she's not filming, you can find her behind the lens of her Sony A6000, shooting scenery in Hawaii, hiking the hills and ridges of her beloved island home, or chasing the perfect sunset.

Why "thereafterish."? Because "and they lived happily ever thereafter" is just half of every story, and this is mine.

Travel Diary: Leg 5 – Phoenix, Arizona to San Diego, California

December 2, 2011

On Day Five of our road trip, we drove from Phoenix, Arizona with a smoking car (a torn CB Axle Boot) to San Diego, California, my childhood home. I made sure to capture our I-8 Arizona to San Diego Road Trip through the eyes of my trusty iPhone 4 and my Hipstamatic Camera App. So all the photos here are Hipstamatic iPhoneography.

Hipstamatic Road Trip Photos: Arizona to So Cal

On one of our stops, I almost came to tears to see my first view of Palm Trees in two and a half years. I almost came to tears again when I realized that this would be Max-the-Bear’s first time ever, seeing palm trees. I made sure to commemorate the moment.

A few hours later, tears threatened to fall from my eyes when we crossed the Arizona/California Border and there was no “Welcome to California” sign or Welcome Center to take a photo next to…However, they decided to recede back into their ducts when I saw the many signs telling me of the quickly dwindling miles between me and my beloved hometown of almost twenty years. Then I began to rejoice when I saw the foothills and mountains that are the gateway to San Diego county after the dry, stinky Imperial Valley. My heart beat faster and threatened to soar right out of my ribcage when I saw tall windmills waving hello at me from the mountain top wind farms of eastern San Diego County.

“Hello, Miss Mae, welcome back home!” they said as they waved quickly in the brisk early afternoon air.

It’s been good to be back in my city after so long. As you can probably imagine from my few days of not posting anything (and thereby suffering dramatic traffic loss), I’m having the time of my life, amidst the stress of the moving logistics, trying to set up our new life over in Hawaii and other things.

Here are my favorite shots from the trip that day.

Sand Dunes in California!

San Diego East County Wind Farm with cotton candy skies

San Diego East County Wind Farm

See the gallery below! Each thumbnail is a link to the larger photo.

Be sure to check out my Travel blog posts from this trip and my travel street style articles, too for documentation of all my looks from these travel diaries!

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About Mae

Mae Lu is a Canada-born, So-Cal-raised Asian American 30 Something, living a dream with her hubby & dog in the magical kingdom of Hawaii.

This red-lipstick aficionado designs websites for a living and runs a fledgling lifestyle YouTube Channel in her spare time. On the weekends, if she's not filming, you can find her behind the lens of her Sony A6000, shooting scenery in Hawaii, hiking the hills and ridges of her beloved island home, or chasing the perfect sunset.

Why "thereafterish."? Because "and they lived happily ever thereafter" is just half of every story, and this is mine.